Former Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Michael Steele confronted the chairman of the American Conservative Union on Saturday over comments made by a spokesman for the group at a major conservative conference a day earlier.

The row between the former RNC head and Matt Schlapp on Steele's SiriusXM radio show "Steele & Ungar" came a day after Ian Walters, the communications director for the Conservative Political Action Conference, said that Steele was picked as RNC chairman because "he was a black guy."